On Sunday evening, the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history occurred at a country music concert in Las Vegas. Armed with more than 20 guns, some modified for increased rates of fire, Stephen C. Paddock killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others by firing upon concert-goers from an elevated position inside the Mandalay Bay hotel. The Las Vegas Review-Journal has comprehensive coverage of the shooting. Keep reading for more news. Victims. NPR has a continuously-updated article that provides moving biographies of the mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, wives, and husbands who are among the dead. Our thoughts are with their families and friends. The Winston-Salem Journal has a story of a Winston-Salem couple, Kristen and Burnie Little, who were at the concert and managed to escape the shooting without being physically harmed. In the article, the Littles recount the terrifying time between when the shooting started and when they were allowed to leave lockdown at the Tropicana Las Vegas, where they had fled. Why “modern” American history? As noted above, the 58 victims in Las Vegas represent the largest mass shooting in modern American history. Why only in “modern” American history? As Time explains here, the 1800s saw far larger massacres of African Americans and Native Americans. Bump Stocks. Video and audio recordings from the Las Vegas shooting suggested that Paddock used weapons that were capable of high rates of fire. While civilian ownership of fully automatic weapons has been tightly restricted for decades and the weapons are relatively [...]
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